Beginning at the age of 4, Brandon Santiago has always wanted to tell stories through his preferred ways of entertainment from video games to, more importantly, comics.  While always drawing up various fantasy adventures in his younger years, he would not start his journey into the comic book industry until the age of 14 when he had finally found a small time job working on the web comic, NOD the Animated Series, for writer Dan Melnick his independent company, NOD. After a couple year run of the web series, the next independent company that Brandon joined would be Rotten Apple Comics. In the 8 years working for Rotten Apple, he would work on various indie titles from the company such as the comic strip, Asa’s Dad, and a few superhero projects like The Kid, Little Bolt, and P.S.A. as well as comics for visiting clients such as The Way of the Phoenix and The Dark.  Not only would he gain experience in learning each part of the comic book making process such as penciling, inking, coloring, and lettering, but he would also learn the in and outs on how to write effective stories, which he would use for his next step into the comic world.

As his experience kept growing, Brandon would start creating small one-shot stories of his own, which would continue until he created a small comic strip for his class called “Not Normal” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Using the subject of monsters and his interest in the horror genre, he would create a dark family comedy about a little ghost girl inspired by the Yurei spirits from Japanese folk lore who lived in a suburban neighborhood going to school, playing with friends, and other daily activities any kid would do.  Only thing is that this particular ghostly child cannot help but cause a little bit of her own havoc using her abilities along the way. This small 8-paged college project would eventually catch the attention of a growing audience and turn into the full blown horror comedy web comic series, Erma. Erma would go on to grow such a following that it would eventually spawn a much awaited prequel, Spirit’s Bloom, and an anthology series taking place in the character’s world, Tales of Outcast. Even with these major two titles under Outcast’s belt, it is only the beginning as there are new projects currently in the works that will be emerging in the near future.